Gabrielle Wallace

Digital Reporter

About

I am a hardworking journalist and a May 2025 graduate from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. I am currently pursuing my master's degree in mass communication from the Cronkite School. I have covered politics, Indigenous communities, sustainability, business, social justice and health care. I recently interned for Times of San Diego, and I am currently working as a digital sports reporter for the Cronkite News Phoenix Bureau.

I have developed strong skills in AP style and writing on deadline. I have strong copy editing and line editing skills. I am communicative and innovative when pitching stories. I work well with others and independently. I am proficient in ENPS and well-versed in Audition and Excel and growing my skills with Premiere. 

Before 100-point record, Fredonia's George McCormick held mark

FREDONIA – Somewhere north of the Grand Canyon and south of the Arizona-Utah border lies Fredonia, a small town known as the gateway to the North Rim. Coined in the 19th century to mean “land of freedom,” Fredonia for decades was also home to a longtime high school basketball record holder. 


That was until January, when George McCormick’s record was shattered.


McCormick scored 75 points in a basketball game in 1966 while playing at Fredonia High School. He held the Arizona high school reco...

National Indigenous Domestic Violence Hotline provides cultural care approach

PHOENIX — Seven days a week, 365 days a year, the StrongHearts Native Helpline provides care and services for Indigenous people experiencing domestic violence. On Sept. 24, it earned the title of National Indigenous Domestic Violence Hotline with new direct funding from the federal government.


The StrongHearts line was first established in 2017. The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and the National Domestic Violence Hotline collaborated on its creation after identifying a service g...

Montezuma Castle National Monument closes after government shutdown

CAMPE VERDE — Yasmeen Mustafa approached the locked gates at Montezuma Castle National Monument and let out a deep, frustrated sigh as it dawned on her that the monument – and other national parks in Arizona, too – would have closures after the government shutdown began Wednesday.


“I really have no words to describe how I’m feeling right now,” she said. “I’m so upset.”


Wednesday marked the first day of her 10-day “dream trip” throughout the Southwest. Mustafa and her family planned to visi...

Arizona Supreme Court hears Prop. 211 arguments

PHOENIX — The fate of Proposition 211, an overwhelmingly popular law passed in 2022, was placed in the hands of the Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday.


The justices heard oral arguments from the Goldwater Institute, the plaintiff, and from the Arizona secretary of state, whose office defended the proposition.


Proposition 211, popularly known as the “Voter’s Right to Know Act,” passed with 72% of the vote. The Goldwater Institute, a public policy research organization, filed a lawsuit challe...